Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.
I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
It’s not the pain that’s inflicted on us by others that destroys us. It’s the pain we let inside our hearts that does that. Don’t let the human’s anger become yours. It can drive you mad if you do. (M'Adoc)